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Debate Effect on Twitter 
Biz via Twitter Blog on Wed, 01 Oct. 2008
Friday is typically a slower day on Twitter but not last week. Election momentum continues to build on Twitter and a few stats from Friday show it.Friday updates jumped 18.5% from previous Friday.Updates during the debate increased 160% compared to same time last week.Signups on Friday were up 23%.Signups during the debate were up 135% compared to same time l
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Trending: Repentance
Biz via Twitter Blog on Tue, 30 Sep. 2008
A quick look at the newest trends on Twitter this morning.Rosh Hashanah is trending on Twitter as folks reflect back on the year in 140 characters or less—shofar sho good?Iron Man was released today on DVD and Blu Ray and Twitter is teeming with plans to w
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The Debate: A Twitter Play-by-Play
Biz via Twitter Blog on Mon, 29 Sep. 2008
This graph illustrates tweet volume for specific terms mentioned during the course of last week's presidential deba
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Trending: The Wach-ness
Biz via Twitter Blog on Mon, 29 Sep. 2008
A Monday morning roundup of what we're all thinking about this morning on Twitter.Wachovia has rocketed to the top trend as folks twitter nervously regarding news of its acquisition by Citi Group.#atlgas is trending because people in Atlanta, Georgia have devise
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Trends: Feel the Boo hoo?
Biz via Twitter Blog on Fri, 26 Sep. 2008
Here's a quick look at today's trending topics.WaMu is today's top trend as folks with accounts share their anxiety, twitter about the takeover, and wonder what's next.ACL is picking up as people gear up for the Austin City Limits music festival (and
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Of The People, By The People, For The People
Biz via Twitter Blog on Fri, 26 Sep. 2008
Politweets was one of the first to mix Twitter and politics. Other interesting mash-ups were created by C-SPAN for both the RNC and the DNC. There's also the amazingly cool Perspctv and of course there's
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Ow, My Aiken Trends
Biz via Twitter Blog on Wed, 24 Sep. 2008
Here's quick look at today's fresh trends as of about 11am PST.Clay Aiken started trending yesterday and he's topping the charts today—his official coming out has people Twittering in ironic shock.Matt Millen is stepping down from his role as vice president of th
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What hath God wrought? (22 characters)
Biz via Twitter Blog on Tue, 23 Sep. 2008
Andrew Ratner from the Baltimore Sun takes a little tour of history's short messages in his article,
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Trends on Twitter
Biz via Twitter Blog on Thu, 18 Sep. 2008
Comedian Demetri Martin sometimes does a bit on The Daily Show about spotting trends. Maybe
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Twitter and Democracy
Biz via Twitter Blog on Tue, 16 Sep. 2008
Today Current TV announced their plan to
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Time Travel (and A Few Updates)
Biz via Twitter Blog on Wed, 10 Sep. 2008
Twitter is all about what's happening right now but sometimes people like to see what has already happened to add a little context. If you're one of those folks, we want to point out a few recent improvements that may have gone unnoticed. The timeline on home pages now goes back 40 pages instead of only 10, the archive timeline now goes back 3,200 tweets, and the "older" button—well, it works. I
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Acceptance Speeches: The Tweets Are In!
Biz via Twitter Blog on Fri, 05 Sep. 2008
MG Siegler over at VentureBeat saw our post yesterday about
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The Palin Peak
Biz via Twitter Blog on Thu, 04 Sep. 2008
Governor Palin's speech at the Republican National Convention last night corresponded with a dramatic increase of tweets per second. This graph represents hourly update activity on Twitter over two days this week.
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HuffPo Twittering from the DNC
Biz via Twitter Blog on Mon, 25 Aug. 2008
The folks over at The Huffington Post have put together a Twitter acc
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Mobilizing His Followers
Biz via Twitter Blog on Wed, 20 Aug. 2008
This AP story points out that Mr. Obama is harnessing the real-time power of Twitter to mobilize his followers to vote. I can just picture the tweet come November: "Hoping you'll go make me president—right now!"Obama's campaign has used the Internet to boost fundraising, building upon Howard De
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Twitter+Chumby
Biz via Twitter Blog on Wed, 20 Aug. 2008
The Chumby is consumer electronics product that displays ambient infotainment. It's a squishy little deal that co
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Alex Payne, API Lead
Biz via Twitter Blog on Mon, 18 Aug. 2008
The Twitter API has grown over the past 2 years and become very important to Twitter as well as developers who build on our services. This has all happened despite the fact that we could only spare one engineer to work on the API about half of his time. Things are changing.Alex Payne has been leading much of ou
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Some SMS Perspective
Biz via Twitter Blog on Fri, 15 Aug. 2008
On Wednesday, we announced that Twitter has suspended outgoing SMS to our UK number.
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Changes for Some SMS Users—Good and Bad News
Biz via Twitter Blog on Wed, 13 Aug. 2008
Let's start with the bad news. Beginning today, Twitter is no longer delivering outbound SMS over our UK number. If you have been receiving SMS updates from Twitter via +44 762 480 1423, you'll notice that they've stopped and you may want to explore some of the alternatives we're suggesting.
Note: Updating via our UK number remains fully supported and these changes
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